Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer - Sydney · Senior Engineer / Technical Lead

Be the founding engineer of a business backed by a leading VC, with real ownership, subject-matter experts beside you, and a first customer already committed on a six-figure contract.

We are Australia's leading Series A software investor, managing over $400M across six funds, backing founders building the next generation of software businesses including Hnry, Siteminder, Mutinex, and EatClub. This time we know the product that the market needs and how to sell it, we are looking for a technologist to help us build it.

The role

You run tech and product from zero: the architecture, the stack, the first version, and the team you grow around you. You'll work directly with EVP's leadership and subject-matter experts, with real ownership and decision-making from the start. The role is open at senior engineer or technical lead, with a clear path to technical leadership as the product scales.

It's a ground-up build of enterprise scale, supported by an established pipeline and a real competitive edge. You'll be solving a real problem for a committed first user, not a hypothesis. We'll share the full detail with the right person.

What you'll own

Defining the architecture and choosing the stack. Shipping the first version and iterating on it in production. Setting the bar for security, data integrity and reliability. Hiring and leading the engineers who come after you.

About you

• Strong full-stack engineer with experience shipping production software end-to-end
• Comfortable owning work from problem definition through to deployment
• Experience shipping AI features and building with AI
• Solid grounding in modern web frameworks, relational databases, and API design
• High standards on security, data integrity, and reliability
• Self-directed, low ego, and energised by building